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Originally Posted by Vlajos
For Chicago what I could find was this:
In 2002, there were 4176 shootings and 648 homicides
In 2014, there were 2084 shootings and 407 homicides
The homicide numbers are totals, so some are not gunshots.
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So much for the idea of advancement in trauma care, unless the nature of the shootings have changed. According to these statistics the shootings are actually becoming deadlier.